::UPDATED::I’ve added some new folks to the sidebar.. please go and read Mark Pierson’s ongoing reflections and stories from Urban Seed:church in Melbourne, and most of you probably already read Stephen Garner and Andrew Jones. I’ve tried to stop myself from becoming one of those blogdom clichés who simply links to all the cool kids, but I do actually read them. So there. Now I’m just cliché in terms of who I read.

Later on this afternoon I’ll probably write a little more, but in the meantime, I’m archiving this for myself..

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves; when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little; when we arrive safely because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess we have lost our thirst for the Waters of Life; having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity; and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly – to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you push back the horizons of our hopes, and to push us in the future with strength, courage, hope and love.

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I'm a strategist and writer. By day, I work as a digital and content strategist while by night, I love to practice hospitality and the making of things.
I think that art and beauty are as essential to enjoying life as understanding the remarkable complexities of who we are as human beings.